I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Just to spice up your return to work, we have a new article online. I originally intended for this to be released Monday of last week, but there were some slight delays.

This article is part of our coverage of Hot Chips 18, which was a rather enjoyable event. There were quite a few good sessions, but by far the most important was the presentation by Greg Grohoski of the Niagara II microprocessor.

Niagara II is a fully integrated server on a chip that is a natural extension of Niagara I. It is projected to deliver 2x the performance of its predecessor, and includes quite a few improvements aside from increasing the throughput. Our article can be found at:

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT090406012516

Other high performance MPU related presentations at Hot Chips included one on the Blackford chipset, the Tulsa MPU, and the Core microarchitecture. The latter was mostly a rehash of IDF news, but did include some new details (but not enough to merit a new article).

Enjoy the article,

David Kanter